Not Bad

Okay, no junk today, but I did discover that I am eating way too many carbs, little protein and a fair amount of fat. Will work on that on paper tonight. It's a start though.

Stressful week

Tough one. Started out each day great, but ended up the same old way. Giving in. I need to work on the stress eating. Begin exercising. The return of the sx of fmg have been horrible. But I have survived. Better week.

Struggling

Boy, the last month or so has been tough. I have gained ten pounds and I am so miserable. Gonna pray through it and really think and think and think before stuff goes in my mouth. Emotional issue?

On The Road Again

Well, it's been a long time. I don't even recall the last time on here. But I've gained only a few pounds, and THANK GOD. I really mean that! I am on the way. And I am glad.

Doing Good

I have 17 pounds to go before I am back where I was on 12-24-08. Never again. Got to watch my weight, kuz it can creep back on. I want to stay healthy. Hard week, depression. Appetite has been low. I know it's good, but I don't like the bad depression.

Moving Forward

Yippee! I lost another 2.5 pounds this week. I am so jazzed. I am now down to 221 and I feel so good. Did my 20 minutes on the bike again yesterday. Back and neck a little bit painful right now, took some Codeine and put some ice on my back and neck. Will still do my biking today, again in 5 minute intervals. Want to really get my metabolism moving. The time on the bike is going by a lot faster now that I am moving around more.

My current desire is to weight myself on Monday and Friday. I have to really stay focused, I don't want to start rewarding myself for doing good. That's you you start back sliding, and I don't want to get in that rut again. It feels good to wear some of my old clothes from last year. I don't want to move backwards anymore. I have to give myself pep talks and snaps! That will keep my motivated. I can't wait for snaps from elsewhere, I have to start with myself. That and praying and what a blessing, I will succeed!

Welcome

Well, here I am starting a blog about the rest of my weight loss. You see, I started out in August 2007 weighing 287 pounds. I was miserable. But I guess I didn't know how miserable. Make sense? My daughter talked to me about starting the Biggest Loser Diet. I got the book, and well, I guess the rest is history. I plateaued. Went off the wagon, somewhat, jumped back on in October 2008, and hit my all time low of 199 pounds. I was really jazzed. I was exercising and loving it. using weights to walk, etc. I was a trooper. Then one day, I was walking with my husband and Rebel (our chihuahua) and I swung a weight too far or hard while I was walking, and pulled a muscle. I was so happy, for the first time in a long time I was pain free. Not even my knees hurt. I was on top of the world.

It seemed like it took forever to recover. It was very slow, had a lot of steroids to build up tissue, and then I began aching all over. I found that my fibromyalgia had really flared back up, seemed to have a domino effect. I had numbness down one arm that was very painful to the nerves. I tried chiropractic, was referred to acupuncture, I was a complete mess. I was taking heavy narcotics. Many doctor visits later, they discovered I had a lot of bone spurs. Between those and the fibro, I was in constant pain. Couldn't exercise. Put on weight with the steroids. Then I started eating again. I gained 52 pounds back. I kept telling myself I needed to get back on the wagon.

Finally, November 9, 2009, I again started my weight loss journey. Of course, I wanted to be back to 200 pounds by January 1st. Little impractical. However, by Christmas I had lost 20 pounds. I was feeling good again. Getting back into exercising wasn't easy though. I have had the hit and miss attempts at walking. Sometimes painful. All breath taking. Of course, Christmas Eve, those sweets looked so good. I had some, in moderation. I ate, but only on a couple of days did I really lose my mind. I started logging my food again officially, January 12, 2010.

Well, today is January 22, 2010, and I am down to 223.5, and I feel great! I have gone back to the stationary bike. I am now up to 20 minutes per day, but I have to cut it into 5 minute intervals. Too hard on the seat, and then it inflames the nerves in my back. But I will keep up the 20 minutes through the weekend and Monday go up to 25 minutes.

I find myself wanting to finish this this year. I have 73 pounds to go. Yippee!!!!!!!! I have found the proper apps to work with on this last leg of the journey. They are on my iPhone. I use Lose It! to log my foods and weight and exercise. I use one to calculate my basal metabolic rate. And the last one I have calculates my BMI and fat percentage. What eye openers!

I was using Spark People and Livestrong! but I wasn't quite happy with the graphs etc., that they showed. A saw the doctor on the Today Show using the LoseIt! and they showed the graphs and the rest is history. Any other apps I had I deleted. I now use the stopwatch function on my iPhone. Time is more of a help than all the other apps tracking stuff I couldn't use or didn't need. And that was if they worked!